![]() ![]() You’re not going to be on the edge of your seat, and you may even get bored, but there is a charm to the effort and execution that is undeniable. ![]() There are long moments where the actors read from a paper or the book of the dead that make the film feel more like an e-book than a movie, but they laid down a ton of exposition within those scenes. That’s not to disparage the film think about all the retro films that come out today that look like they were made in the nineties (though they always carry the color palette of the early eighties). You could have told me this was a monster movie from the nineteen fifties and I wouldn’t argue. Told as a flashback of a traumatic event that David had a year earlier (plus a day to be exact) when he and his three friends encountered a cackling old man in a cave with an ancient book of evil, similar to Lovecraft’s Necronomicon. The film, which was originally conceived as a short, seems to be completely dubbed in post. The opening sounds - whirring and clicking of gears - remind me of the brilliant score for The Burbs by Jerry Goldsmith (which often plays while I write). ![]() Let’s dig into 1970’s “Equinox”, directed by Jack Woods and Dennis Muren (the short)! As I See It Told in flashback, a patient in a mental ward tells of how he came to be locked up and the curse that doomed him and his friends one year and one day prior. A stop motion classic, “Equinox” feels like a monster movie plucked from the 1950s but has inspired genre paragons like “The Evil Dead”. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |